Recall-precision trade-off: a derivation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The relationship between recall and precision
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Automated information retrieval: theory and methods
Automated information retrieval: theory and methods
A theoretical study of recall and precision using a topological approach to information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Text retrieval and filtering: analytic models of performance
Text retrieval and filtering: analytic models of performance
Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects
Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects
Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics
Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Existence theorem of the quadruple (P, R, F, M): precision, recall, fallout and miss
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
WSDL term tokenization methods for IR-style Web services discovery
Science of Computer Programming
The tipping point: F-score as a function of the number of retrieved items
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploiting Codified User Task Knowledge to Discover Services at Design-Time
International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
Exploiting Codified User Task Knowledge to Discover Services at Design-Time
International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
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In this paper, for the first time, we present global curves for the measures precision, recall, fallout and miss in function of the number of retrieved documents. Different curves apply for different retrieved systems, for which we give exact definitions in terms of a retrieval density function: perverse retrieval, perfect retrieval, random retrieval, normal retrieval, hereby extending results of Buckland and Gey and of Egghe in the following sense: mathematically more advanced methods yield a better insight into these curves, more types of retrieval are considered and, very importantly, the theory is developed for the ''complete'' set of measures: precision, recall, fallout and miss. Next we study the interrelationships between precision, recall, fallout and miss in these different types of retrieval, hereby again extending results of Buckland and Gey (incl. a correction) and of Egghe. In the case of normal retrieval we prove that precision in function of recall and recall in function of miss is a concavely decreasing relationship while recall in function of fallout is a concavely increasing relationship. We also show, by producing examples, that the relationships between fallout and precision, miss and precision and miss and fallout are not always convex or concave.